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20 PIERRES (20 STONES) is a two-part performance: a screening of the film Pietre, directed by Élise Blotière, followed by a reading by Laura Vazquez. This performance is an extension of an installation created at Villa Medici in Rome, where Laura Vazquez’s poem “20 pierres” was engraved on twenty stones laid out in the gardens.
Did you know that just 20 words can form 2432902008176640000 poems?
Did you know that with 20 very simple, primary, easy words, you can say I love you I’m going to die I’m fine I know a stone I’m cradling it I destroyed the universe and reformed it?
Did you know that with very simple words, you can say I lick my love I sleep I’m afraid the world is good the world made me vomit the night hurts me the mist is without silence your eyes wash me I’m going to talk I don’t care about me complete and there and yes and nothing?
Directed by Élise Blotière
France | 2025

Laura Vazquez is a writer. She has published several books of poetry with various publishers, including La main de la main (Prix de la Vocation) with éditions Cheyne in 2014, and Vous êtes de moins en moins réels with éditions Points in 2022. His first novel, La semaine perpétuelle, was published by Sous-sol in 2021. It won the Prix Wepler special mention and the Prix de la page 111. Her epic, Le livre du large et du long, was published in March 2023 by Editions du Sous-sol. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2022-2023 and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Poetry in 2023. In August 2025, during the literary rentrée, Laura Vazquez will publish her second novel, titled Les forces, with Editions du Sous-sol.
Her texts have been translated into Chinese, English, Spanish, Portuguese,...

Elise Blotière is a film and video director. After several years in Italy, she settled in Marseille. In January 2024, she made her first film, Se réchauffe lentement, followed by Graine lumière cuirein September of the same year. She is currently working on a second short fiction film and preparing a video installation as part of a creative residency at Villa Glovettes.
Thursday, April 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Grand Salon of Villa Medici
Wordless film, performance in French ST in Italian
Free with reservation: tickets